Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [109]
And just like that, what could have been a brilliant career as an MSNBC prime-time host came to a fiery end.
Just a week before Stack flew his plane into the IRS building, on February 12, 2010, University of Alabama professor Amy Bishop shot up a room full of professors, hitting six and leaving three of her colleagues dead. We didn’t hear much about Bishop’s massacre of her colleagues, probably because, according to the Boston Herald, Bishop “was a far-left political extremist who was ‘obsessed’ with President Obama to the point of being off-putting.” That fact was never acknowledged by the New York Times or other major media, except inadvertently by the mainstream media’s instantaneous dropping of all mention of the rather spectacular crime.
It was the same with the satanic cult the “Westboro church,” which protests outside soldiers’ funerals with charming signs saying things like “God hates fags.” The patriarch of the cult, Fred Phelps, has run for office five times—as a Democrat. The New York Times submitted an amicus brief on his behalf in a lawsuit brought by the father of a soldier whose funeral Phelps’s crew had disrupted.
Then, in late March 2010, there was exultation throughout the media when federal law enforcement officials arrested nine members of an alleged “Christian militia group” based in Michigan. The group, calling themselves the “Hutaree,” was charged on weapons and drug offenses, and also with plotting to kill law enforcement officers. Inasmuch as they had not actually committed any violence yet, if the Hutaree had been Muslims, liberals would have been wailing about their civil rights.
The case, apparently just another white-trash bust, was featured on every MSNBC prime-time program that night. You’d think Michael Steele had been arrested. On The Ed Show, guest Bill Press said, “Ed, I have to tell you, I don’t see any difference between what [conservative blogger] Erick Erickson said and what that militia did, the Hutaree.”
Just making some back-of-the-envelope notes here: One difference is that Erickson wasn’t accused of plotting to murder police officers.
Erickson, editor of the conservative Red State blog, had said on radio that he was perfectly happy to fill out the census form, but got worked up complaining about the detailed personal questions on the long form, saying, “This is crazy. What gives the Commerce Department the right to ask me how often I flush my toilet? Or about going to work? I’m not filling out this form. I dare them to try and come throw me in jail. I dare them to. Pull out my wife’s shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door. They’re not going on my property. They can’t do that. They don’t have the legal right, and yet they’re trying.”42
Life with liberals is a constant game of Sesame Street’s “One of These Things Is Not Like the Other.”
Liberals are allowed to call us curs, dogs, and fascists, but conservatives must make precious measured statements, so that, in the end, perhaps, the truth may emerge. To take one example at random, just a few weeks before Erickson’s word crime, HBO’s Bill Maher commented on his TV show about the death of a deranged pothead who tried to shoot his way into the Pentagon, saying, “When we see crazy, senseless deaths like this, we can only ask why, why, why couldn’t it have been Glenn Beck?”43
Two weeks after the Hutaree bust in Michigan, another group of anti-government extremists were arrested in New York City. New York police arrested more than a hundred violent extremists who had been caught on phone taps engaging in anti-government